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darkstar

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3. Exactly. The whole kernel

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 06:01 PM

Sep 2025

that got me stared was the I roductory voice overs of “creating discourse” with the still images of the “Prove Me Wrong” (essentially, “I Am Right!”). The dissonance was just too much. Still is.

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Kirk, political discourse and the old rhetorical bait-and-switch [View all] darkstar Sep 2025 OP

I would have loved to take your class jmbar2 Sep 2025 #1

Kirk's "prove me wrong" was, as so often happens, pompous, fake macho bluster. eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #2

Exactly. The whole kernel darkstar Sep 2025 #3